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, CALUMET FARMS MENAGERIE Monkey, Goat and Dogs Among Pets in Wright Stable. Soap Part of Diet of Both Monkey and Goat Latter Prefers Paper Have Their Favorites. LEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 24. Cat and kittens are the latest acquisitions to the Calumet Farm stable the others are all old-timers. Pat, the monkey, has been with the stable five years and is a lot of fun, if you dont ride horses. He hates, detests and despises all exercise boys and jockeys, principally they think, at the stable, because the boys have teased him by throwing water and lighted matches into his cage. Pat is a big favorite with the stable attendant who takes care of him and feeds him, and visitors think he is very cute, indeed. The little monkey begins every morning in a cheerful frame of mind unless he has a hangover in which case hes a little silent and grumpy. He occasionally has a draught of beer before bedtime and once in a while he has a spot of hard liquor. The liquor makes him quite jolly and then very, very sleepy. The old fellows day begins with an orange for breakfast and then goes on through a series of meals and bites between. In his cage he always has nice tasty popcorn and he clamors for bananas and grapes. Baked Irish potatoes are his favorite food, although he goes for sweets too. When sugar is dished out he gets several lumps, which he dunks in water before he begins to grind down. Soap is not only part of his diet but he knows how to use it he likes a good bite of soap suds and hell gnaw on any kind of soap from the yellow kitchen variety to the scented toilet kind. When the stable boys begin to do the washing that has to be done about the place each day, Pat digs in with a will and washes bandages as well as the next one his antics at the wash tub never cease to amuse even the men in his own stable who are used to his assistance. GOAT IS BULLY. Henry, the Calumet goat, is a big bully! He is gentle and friendly with all the men and boys, but he jams and butts, as best he can without horns, at women and children. He knows that they cant do a thing with him and he just plain takes advantage of them. He does the same thing with the Calumet horses hell be playful with the thoroughbreds who are even-tempered and will play back gently, but he has never been known to go near the stable of Bull Lea, who will have no foolishness and would kick or bite if Henry got pestiferous. Henry also likes a bit of soap and in spite of the fact that he is given the finest timothy and alfalfa, hed rather have paper. He eats sugar and carrots right along with the horses, but he prefers corks; whenever possible, the boys get screw top bottles to prevent Henry from wrecking the liniment supply. The gentler, less exciting members of the pet colony are the unnamed cat and her frisky babies; Irving Andersons Plumber, a fifty-seven varieties dog, who doesnt miss a thing that goes on about the stable, and the gentle pretty Suzy, a black and white Cocker Spaniel. Life is full of surprises for the boys with the Calumet stable because any day they may have a new pet to amuse them and they are assured of one thing, even with their present menagerie theres never a dull moment!
